Django 2.1.x

This series of Django releases was supported from 2018-08-01 to 2019-12-02.

Highlights

As of this release, Django only supports Python 3.5, 3.6, and 3.7.

The other major new feature of this release is the addition of the view permission, which adds a way for you to give users a readonly view of data in the Django admin.

Upgrade Gotchas

One of the first things you may run into when upgrading to version 2.1 is missing features: some of the features that were deprecated in v1.11 are now completely gone.

A few specific removed features:

• The venerable @permalink is gone.
• The older function-based django.contrib.auth views have been retired in favor of the new class-based versions.
• {% load staticfiles %} and {% load admin_static %} have been replaced with {% load static %}, which works the same way.
• django.forms.Widget.render methods that don’t accept the renderer argument are no longer supported

Also note: deprecation warnings are no longer “loud” by default.